Principle 3: Students’ motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn.
What you can do in the classroom
|
Examples
|
Establish the value of class activities and goals for your students |
- Provide authentic, real world tasks so that students can see the usefulness of what they're learning.
- Connect course content to student's interests.
- Show your own passion and enthusiasm for the subject. (It can be contagious!)
- Identify and reward what you value. If you value group interactions in a given project, identify what that looks like and include evaluation so it's integral in grade.
|
Help students develop a positive expectancy (to believe they can achieve success) |
- Create assignments with the appropriate level of challenge.
- Provide your students with early opportunities for success (e.g., shorter assignments that build to a larger project).
- Provide rubrics that will explicitly represent your performance expectations.
- Describe, model, and coach your students on effective study strategies. This gives them alternatives to those habitual study routines that result in poor performance.
- Identify and applaud successful student behaviors.
|
Adapted from How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (2010, Ambrose et al.)